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And they help bring these other agencies on board like DBI, Planning, etc.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archie Wong, an assistant district attorney assigned to Ingleside and Tenderloin police stations, told the committee that the District Attorney’s Office and SFPD have met about the gambling dens with several federal agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Internal Revenue Service and a joint state-federal task force in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a half-dozen neighborhood group leaders and residents appeared at the hearing to speak about their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joelle Kenealey, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/San-Francisco-Outer-Mission-Merchants-and-Residents-Association-154816581779/timeline/\">Outer Mission Merchants and Residents Association\u003c/a>, requested that the city enforce the laws already on the books. 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It's revitalizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We put together a transportation task force … but we do need infrastructure money. And I am a true believer in not only making sure we extend the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf ... I think we need to have more subway systems in the city, we need to have that extra BART tube ... and we need to have the federal government and the state government support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We have thousands of people on the streets. Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Jerry Brown and a host of other elected officials and political organizations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss has nearly a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector, including on community garden projects. She got her start in San Francisco politics by organizing \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories\">opposition to a Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> -- favored by Lee's Office of Economic and Workforce Development -- which displaced two independently owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In her words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>“The only tool that’s available to us to be able to acquire power is grass-roots democracy. When our leaders are not accountable to us, when they’re not using that power in a way that gives us an exciting vision for the future that’s truly inclusive and equitable, then we need to become those leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We need an environmental impact review for the tech buses. We need an environmental impact review for Uber and Lyft, and it’s ridiculous that taxi drivers have had to endure what they endured with the regulations that are put upon them, but aren’t being placed on the [transportation network companies]. The administration is just capitulating to these large corporate interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I have a background in transitional housing, mental health, reactivating spaces, starting urban gardens. I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. We have a corporate tech problem, and it’s money that’s coming with the corporate side and it’s working with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/\">Visit Reed Martin's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Graham\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Kent Graham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his website, Kent Graham holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and has a background in business management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"I think San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I’m not so interested in what’s going to happen 20 or 30 years from now. I mean, I know we have to do it, and the transportation systems, the high-speed rails, that all has to come. But I’m going to put emphasis on how do we get this done in the next six months?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Homelessness is not a crime, it’s a condition. Before you can do anything, you have to go up to the person, find out why he’s homeless, get a read on that. Social workers in other areas of the country do this … it’s those types of things, we need more social workers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Well, I’m troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and doesn’t pay their fair share and has workers from out of town. You can’t keep doing that and sustain what we want in San Francisco. I think we have to tax the corporations at the rate that we need to support our current population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kentgraham4mayor.com/\">Visit Graham's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 3, San Francisco voters will be asked to decide between Mayor Ed Lee and five other candidates for San Francisco's top political job, which Lee has held since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>None of Lee’s challengers have a track record in politics, nor do they have strong name recognition. The mayor has received nearly $1.5 million in campaign contributions, compared with about $42,000 raised by all five of his opponents combined. Some news outlets have gone so far as to state that Lee is running unopposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his challengers are still making the rounds to try and drum up support as Election Day nears, holding happy hours to introduce themselves to voters or even climbing aboard Muni buses to deliver impromptu stump speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, every contender who has thrown his or her hat into the ring had a chance to sound off at a forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. Questions were formulated by members of the audience, and contenders were allotted 60 seconds each to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown of who's running and what they said in response to selected questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Mayor Ed Lee, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was appointed to serve as interim mayor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 2011 after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected lieutenant governor. Despite initially stating that he had no intention of seeking a full term, Lee entered the November 2011 race and won. Among his opponents were two members of the Board of Supervisors and several elected officials who held citywide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>In 2011, \"We were coming out of the worst recession ever. People were looking for all kinds of answers, but they ultimately wanted jobs. And the reason that I concentrated with supervisors on Mid-Market was ... every third storefront was empty. Porno shops every block ... There was misery in that whole site. ... So I made a promise ... that we would show our efforts there as to how to clean it up. Well, guess who led that effort? It was local artists. ... Yes, the companies took advantage, at our invitation, to come in for six-year exemption. And guess what? It's revitalizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We put together a transportation task force … but we do need infrastructure money. And I am a true believer in not only making sure we extend the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf ... I think we need to have more subway systems in the city, we need to have that extra BART tube ... and we need to have the federal government and the state government support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We have thousands of people on the streets. Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. Jerry Brown and a host of other elected officials and political organizations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoredlee.com/about\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16992_IMG_8897-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Amy Farah Weiss answers a question during a mayoral candidate forum at the University of California San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Amy Farah Weiss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss has nearly a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector, including on community garden projects. She got her start in San Francisco politics by organizing \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories\">opposition to a Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> -- favored by Lee's Office of Economic and Workforce Development -- which displaced two independently owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In her words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>“The only tool that’s available to us to be able to acquire power is grass-roots democracy. When our leaders are not accountable to us, when they’re not using that power in a way that gives us an exciting vision for the future that’s truly inclusive and equitable, then we need to become those leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We need an environmental impact review for the tech buses. We need an environmental impact review for Uber and Lyft, and it’s ridiculous that taxi drivers have had to endure what they endured with the regulations that are put upon them, but aren’t being placed on the [transportation network companies]. The administration is just capitulating to these large corporate interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I have a background in transitional housing, mental health, reactivating spaces, starting urban gardens. I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. We have a corporate tech problem, and it’s money that’s coming with the corporate side and it’s working with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/\">Visit Reed Martin's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Graham\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Kent Graham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his website, Kent Graham holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and has a background in business management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"I think San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I’m not so interested in what’s going to happen 20 or 30 years from now. I mean, I know we have to do it, and the transportation systems, the high-speed rails, that all has to come. But I’m going to put emphasis on how do we get this done in the next six months?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Homelessness is not a crime, it’s a condition. Before you can do anything, you have to go up to the person, find out why he’s homeless, get a read on that. Social workers in other areas of the country do this … it’s those types of things, we need more social workers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Well, I’m troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and doesn’t pay their fair share and has workers from out of town. You can’t keep doing that and sustain what we want in San Francisco. I think we have to tax the corporations at the rate that we need to support our current population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing was already hard to find before the fire,\" she said. English and her three kids, ages 3, 10 and 11, have been living with her mother in Kelseyville for about a month now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s been a helluva 90 days for the county of Lake.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mike McGuire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If they want people to stay in this county, they're going to have to step up and help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concerns about the mountains of toxic ash left by the fire are slowing the rebuilding process. A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home along with about 1,300 others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3V8DKKZkgwxxCGfXF7Ebe5Ou2ACWQ6xd\"]\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. And even though the retreat plans to rebuild, that's not why he's decided to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I've decided to stay at this time, even though Harbin is no longer there, is people are real,\" he said. \"People who we wouldn't normally have talked to or connected with are just coming together, and we can recognize each other and really see each other. It's a very unique experience and I want to be a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sukey Lewis of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing was already hard to find before the fire,\" she said. English and her three kids, ages 3, 10 and 11, have been living with her mother in Kelseyville for about a month now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s been a helluva 90 days for the county of Lake.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mike McGuire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If they want people to stay in this county, they're going to have to step up and help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concerns about the mountains of toxic ash left by the fire are slowing the rebuilding process. A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home along with about 1,300 others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. And even though the retreat plans to rebuild, that's not why he's decided to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I've decided to stay at this time, even though Harbin is no longer there, is people are real,\" he said. \"People who we wouldn't normally have talked to or connected with are just coming together, and we can recognize each other and really see each other. It's a very unique experience and I want to be a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Twelve Pacific Rim countries including the United States \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2015/10/05/44715/what-the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-coul/\" target=\"_blank\">agreed Monday morning\u003c/a> to a sweeping trade agreement that would eliminate thousands of tariffs and establish new trade standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ustr.gov/tpp/overview-of-the-TPP\" target=\"_blank\">The Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> (TPP) still has to be approved by Congress in what is likely to be a contentious election year fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement is not expected to be made public for another month, so many industry groups remain on the fence about whether the agreement is good or bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227672907\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/06/54840/trans-pacific-partnership-update-how-5-socal-indus/\" target=\"_blank\">KPCC takes a look at five industries\u003c/a> in California, and how they might be affected by the landmark pact: clothing, rice, dairy, the ports and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clothing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Ilsa Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/06/29/52665/la-clothing-makers-worry-about-impact-of-trans-pac/\" target=\"_blank\">predicted that the TPP would invariably lead to cuts\u003c/a> in the California apparel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when reached Monday, Metchek was more optimistic, because it appears that the agreement now includes a so-called \"yarn-forward\" provision that has long been part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In order for a company to qualify for \"duty-free\" status and pay no tariffs, they must use only fabric produced from material made by a TPP country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If yarn-forward means that a country like Indonesia must buy their cotton from the United States or from another TPP country, it's fine,\" Metchek said Monday. \"It's the same thing we have with NAFTA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42772.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In a report published last year\u003c/a>, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service warned the TPP could increase competition for Western manufacturers and reduce demand for U.S. textile exports because Asian apparel producers could export clothing to the United States duty-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/06/54840/trans-pacific-partnership-update-how-5-socal-indus/\" target=\"_blank\">Read about potential impacts to the other 4 industries via KPCC\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland is accusing Wells Fargo Bank of systematic predatory lending to minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Oakland%20v.%20Wells%20Fargo%20endorsed%20complaint%209-21-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week, the city alleges that the bank targeted blacks and Latinos, steering them toward risky, likely-to-fail loans — the kind that caused many families to lose their homes in the ongoing foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker says the city has collected proof, including the testimony of former Well Fargo employees, suggesting the bank intentionally gave more expensive loans to African-American and Latino residents. Parker says minorities with good credit were given bad loans, in contrast to loans given to white borrowers with the same credit and income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the testimony that we have gotten indicates that they felt that these borrowers were less sophisticated,\" Parker says. \"In some cases there's comments that they thought they were less intelligent. It's hard to imagine that being the case today, but in effect that's what happened over years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes the high-risk loans significant, Parker says, is that they led to a disproportionate number of foreclosures for minority homeowners — a large factor in the displacement of longtime Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. And yes, those neighborhoods were largely populated by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\">African-Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If redlining were a form of starving certain neighborhoods for credit, so-called predatory lending \u003cimg class=\"ajT\" src=\"https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\">acted as a sort of reverse redlining, Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Neighborhoods that had been deprived of conventional low-cost credit were flooded with the opposite, with the converse, just before the crisis and have suffered as a result,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Stein says, banks may be redlining again. \"In a way we've kind of come full circle,\" he says. \"What we're seeing now is kind of a return to redlining. In the best possible light, lenders are being more conservative in making loans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some cases in the courts claim something more nefarious than the pendulum swinging back from over-lending, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/dealbook/evans-bank-settles-new-york-redlining-lawsuit.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a recent case \u003c/a>in New York, and a case settled in 2001 in Michigan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bank vehemently denies the claims. Wells Fargo spokesman, Ruben Pulido, sent this email to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The City Attorney’s accusations against Wells Fargo do not reflect how we operate in the communities where we do business and it’s disappointing that she has chosen this course of action over a collaborative approach to helping borrowers and home owners in Oakland. Wells Fargo has been a part of the Oakland community for more than 140 years and we will vigorously defend our record as a fair and responsible lender. We will continue to focus on helping customers in Oakland and its surrounding communities succeed financially, and on expanding homeownership in California and across the United States.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christopher Palmer, of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, says there's no doubt the housing crisis hit minorities hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subprime lending was much more prevalent among blacks and Hispanics,\" Palmer says. \"That's just a fact that just jumps out of the data.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the data on their own don't necessarily mean the city can prove there was an abusive pattern that violated fair housing laws, according to Palmer. However, while proving these cases can be difficult, there have been a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/wells-fargo-loans-lawsuit_n_6261356.html\" target=\"_blank\">number of lawsuits\u003c/a> filed against banks in recent years, including some by the Department of Justice, that have resulted in hefty settlements. In a very similar case in Baltimore in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo settled\u003c/a> with the U.S. Department of Justice for more than $175 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those settlements, Parker says, are part of the reason Oakland is joining with other cities — \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-suit-20150505-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">including Los Angeles\u003c/a> -- in taking on Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, with the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, says that in many ways cities are turning to the courts as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think local governments, local jurisdictions, have been trying to deal with the crisis, because they see it had not been dealt with at the federal and state level sufficiently,\" Stein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy/oakland-wells-fargo-foreclosures\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosure crisis\u003c/a> hit cities like Oakland directly in their pocketbooks, Parker says, leaving the city — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/wells-fargo-blamed-for-hampering-california-economy\" target=\"_blank\">and the state \u003c/a>— with a large gap in property tax revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein says cities like Oakland are caught in a bind — they are the places that feel the full weight of the housing crisis, yet they have no way to regulate or hold banks accountable. Not for lack of trying, according to Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2001, Oakland passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance. \"That ordinance,\" Stein says, \"would have restricted abusive lending practices. And if laws like that were in place throughout all of the cities in California, then we would not have had the crisis that we ultimately had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law was challenged by the banking industry — and the California Supreme Court eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheppardmullin.com/media/article/94_pub354.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the rule\u003c/a>, saying that the city did not have the authority to regulate banks in that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn't the only city that has tried to deal with the foreclosure crisis itself. Last year Richmond floated the idea of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=1&mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">eminent domain\u003c/a> to take back foreclosed and blighted houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo blocked that move with a lawsuit -- which Stein says basically amounted to a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a way what they were arguing was the city of Richmond shouldn't be allowed to implement an eminent domain program, because the result of that would be that banks wouldn't lend in the city of Richmond,\" Stein says. \"Which is another way of saying, if you proceed with eminent domain, which we don't like -- we will redline your city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which,\" Stein adds, \"is outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/\" target=\"_blank\">Redlining\u003c/a> is a practice, often thought of as in the past, that in effect cut off certain neighborhoods from receiving loans. 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The United States denied Modi a visa in 2005 over allegations that he failed to intervene to stop Hindus from killing hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat state, where he was chief minister. He was eventually cleared of complicity by India’s Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the cheering crowd in San Jose that he doesn’t see their exodus as a brain drain but as a “brain deposit.” Many engineers and other educated Indians flocked to Silicon Valley in the 1980s, because they felt that innovation was stifled by political and social forces in India. Modi said their success and the magic of their fingers in Silicon Valley forced the world to change the way it looks at India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India’s brain drain came to be brain gain,” said Modi, 64, speaking in Hindi with English subtitles on a jumbo screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi wants Indian-Americans to invest in India, said Seema Sirohi, a columnist for the Economic Times in Washington, D.C., after she heard the speech in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called them not a brain drain but a brain deposit that he can cash when the time comes. With opportunities growing in India, he wants them to come back,” said Sirohi. “He said India is on a growth path with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world now and it’s a huge market, so it’s a great opportunity for entrepreneurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi drew many Indian-Americans in their 20s who are planning to make careers in tech. 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San Jose police tried to keep protesters and supporters apart, but yelling matches often broke out before Modi’s speech began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In India it is a Modi-cracy, not a democracy,” said Bajin Singh outside the arena. “There are forced conversions, there are genocides. It is a nation that wants to have one religion, one identity and one look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One climate change protester said Modi can’t have it both ways on energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modi is talking about the largest rollout of solar power anywhere, but he’s also talking about a massive increase in coal burning. And there’s no point in increasing solar if you’re just going to increase coal burning,” said Neil Tangri of Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Indian gay rights activist, who did not want to be identified, said Modi needs to legalize homosexuality, which is considered a crime in India. 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The only difference is my zeal has been intensified to a maximum degree, and nothing is going to stop the state from pushing forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223254040″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest hurdle for Brown, de León and liberal Democrats ended up being \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-pol-c1-henry-perea-20150902-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moderate members of their own party \u003c/a>— particularly in the state Assembly — who sided with critics of the Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘With the clocks ticking, the stakes are way too high to let the perfect be the enemy of the great.’ \u003ccite>Senate leader Kevin de León\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An hour before the governor’s news conference, Modesto Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray — \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article34530081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who penned an opinion piece against \u003c/a>SB350 — stood up on the Assembly floor to urge lawmakers to demand more say in the air board’s decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor hit back at his news conference, saying a drastic shift in oil consumption would fundamentally change the world’s economy and that it’s no surprise there was a big fight when he proposed “cutting sales of the most powerful industry in the world by 50 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did do in this bill, however, is not cave in to the last-minute effort by big oil to strip the power of the Air Resources Board,” Brown said. “Make no mistake about it, this is a titanic struggle that will go on for years and decades. But at the end, science, the religious leadership of the world, ordinary people will triumph.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A somber de León said that while Brown doesn’t need legislative authority to push a reduction in oil consumption, having it in law would ensure the state continues in that direction in future years. He noted that SB350 still includes other ambitious mandates, including a steep increase in renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reached for something grand and something doable, while the world once again waited to take its cues from California. But in the end, with two days left, we could not cut through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ad-war-20150904-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multimillion-dollar smoke screen \u003c/a>created by a single interest group with a singular motive and a bottomless war chest,” he said. “But with the clocks ticking, the stakes are way too high to let the perfect be the enemy of the great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leader of the Western States Petroleum Association, which led the SB350 opposition, said the agency and its members “remain committed” to working with state leaders on the issue but did take a position on the amended legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement was an acknowledgement that California’s energy future, economic competitiveness, and environment are inextricably linked,” said WSPA president Catherine Reheis-Boyd in a written statement. “Californians are best served by inclusive energy policy and by a legislative body that retains authority on issues so critically important to jobs, communities and our way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said she’s hopeful that the amended bill will pass the Assembly before legislators go home for the year on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Today, grapes in the grocery store don’t seem that controversial. But 50 years ago, a historic strike in California’s Central Valley vineyards set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. Some people in the town of Delano and across the state are determined to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be easy to drive through Delano and have no idea that history was made here. It’s a dry, hot Central Valley town, and places of historical importance -- such as a retirement home, a church, and acres and acres of farmland -- look ordinary on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many people, though, these places are sacred ground: the vineyards, picketed for years by farmworkers and their supporters; the high school auditorium where Sen. Bobby Kennedy spoke; a white stucco building on the edge of town where Cesar Chavez carried out a hunger strike and became a national symbol of farmworker rights; and a utilitarian community center known as Filipino Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To resident Roger Gadiano, Filipino Hall is a shrine. “This is our Mecca,” he says. “I guess it’s our Selma. This is it!” Because in this building, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t know who in the heck walked in here … but I do.” Gadiano says. “It tickles me. We’re a part of a big history. We took a step that was bold and that no one else would take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those voting -- and striking -- were elders called Manongs, the mostly migrant, bachelor Filipino farmworkers whose names and stories few people know, even in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1440x975.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Philippine Weekend, a cultural celebration and kind of family reunion, a group of young women say they never learned about the farmworker movement in school. Anhelica Perez says her Latina grandmother and other relatives actually participated in the strike and ensuing boycott, “So it was active family history, but it was not taught -- or talked about -- at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she’s in her late 20s, Melanie Retuda says she learned about the Filipino origins of the strike only last year. “I’d known of Cesar Chavez and Hispanics being involved,” she says. “Being Filipino, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ Filipinos actually made an impact in the process. It makes me proud that they were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez is outraged that this history is not known because the actions those Filipinos took improved her family’s lives. “I mean, I’m extremely proud that Cesar Chavez was the right face at the right time, but a lot of the dirty work was already done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-800x1010.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-400x505.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Filipino farmworkers and labor organizers had prepared for the Delano Grape Strike for decades. Dawn Mabalon, professor of history at San Francisco State University, says they’d been fighting for better working conditions since the 1920s, and had a key win in 1939 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five to seven thousand Filipinos in asparagus fields all walk out at the height of the season, on Good Friday,” threatening the availability of asparagus on Easter dinner tables, Mabalon says. “Growers capitulated in a day. So Filipinos know that if they all walk out, in absolute unity, with absolute militancy, they’re probably going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the ’60s, though, conditions for farmworkers across the state were still dismal. Mabalon describes conducting oral histories in which she heard stories of field crews sharing just one tin cup of water. “You still had no bathrooms in the fields, poor wages, no workers' comp, no unemployment, no Social Security,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the summer of 1965, when growers cut the pay of Filipinos picking grapes in the Coachella Valley, they were prepared to act. These workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, were “led by this really charismatic, seasoned, militant labor leader, Larry Itliong,” Mabalon says, “and they make a stand against the farmers in Coachella and they win: $1.40 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xotg4AWAehe1ZfO0noGLK1OdPcrHAvPQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they migrated north to Delano, organizers like Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco urged local families to join them in asking for improved conditions (the same raise to $1.40 an hour). Growers balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired journalist Alex Edillor was only 11 years old, but he remembers his farmworker parents coming back from heated meetings, and talking about a potential strike over the kitchen table. “There were people with mortgages, with families to feed, considering a strike action,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667730\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Sept. 7, workers gathered at Filipino Hall and voted to strike. The next morning they went out to the vineyards, as they always did, but made a dramatic stand. Edillor remembers: \u003ci>“\u003c/i>It was the first day of school, I was all prepared to come home, watch a little TV,” but when he came home, his parents were there. Like the Manongs, and other locals, they’d worked a full day, then left the harvested crop on the ground and walked off the vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano, who had family members join the strike, adds, “Just imagine over 1,500 old Filipino men at different labor camps, different vineyards, all walking out at same time. How awesome is that!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Gadiano’s first day of his senior year of high school. He remembers walking into his Spanish II class, and being approached by a grower’s son. “‘Hey Rog, your Uncle Max just went on strike.’ I went, ‘He did? They just want a raise.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers got kicked out of labor camps. Gadiano says, “The farmers were going to use the Mexicans to break the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Chavez and others, like Dolores Huerta and Gil Padilla, had been organizing Mexican workers around Delano for a few years through the National Farm Workers Association, but a strike wasn’t in their immediate plans. So Larry Itliong appealed to Chavez, and two weeks later, the much more sizable group of Mexican workers joined the strike. Soon, the two unions came together to form what would become United Farm Workers, with Larry Itliong assistant director under Chavez. It was a historic interracial union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These two groups that had been kept apart for so long, coming together, that is the power in the Delano Grape Strike,” says historian Mabalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexicans and Filipinos gathered at Filipino Hall, eating fishhead soup and preparing strikers’ meals, organizing, even sleeping there. Gadiano passed by every day on his way to high school and saw the steps filled with picket signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d eat breakfast and pick up their signs and go to a field location and picket,” he remembers. It took five years of striking, plus an international boycott of table grapes, before growers signed contracts with the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years weren’t easy on strikers, families or Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano shows me around the grocery store his dad once owned. As the only supplier of Filipino goods in the region, it was popular with townspeople and labor camps, where the family delivered fish, meat and other goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A common order was a 100-pound sack of Calrose rice, sticky rice,” Gadiano remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1440x1216.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1180x996.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-960x811.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His dad also helped out families of striking workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were giving them credit to pay us back when work started. We carried hundreds of families. We were stuck in the middle because we had the store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families were like Alex Edillor’s: his parents walked off the fields initially, but after a few weeks they felt they had to return to work. He remembers the tension, even in places like church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of split down the middle of the church: This is where the strikers went, this is where the people who went back to work went,” he says. “There was a strange division among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, though, people who sat on either side of the aisle join in wanting to share this history. “We came back together because, looking back on it, we were very proud of that moment,\" Edillor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabalon says, growing up not knowing this history, she and her peers feel the hurt of a generation. “It’s our story, and it demands our love and attention and respect, and we need to tell this story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667732\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Perez, Melanie Retuda and Larissa Portillo (L-R) in front of a recently-completed mural in downtown Delano featuring Philip Vera Cruz, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-400x292.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-1440x1052.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-960x702.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anhelica Perez, Melanie Retuda and Larissa Portillo (L-R) in front of a recently completed mural in downtown Delano featuring Philip Vera Cruz, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s happening more and more. Mabalon is writing a biography of Larry Itliong; Edillor and Gadiano have organized a \u003ca href=\"https://roundtown.com/event/10151147/Bold-Step-Celebration-the-50th-Anniversary-the-Delano-Grape-Strike-Delano-CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebration\u003c/a> in Delano over Labor Day weekend; and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.delanomanongs.com/\">documentary\u003c/a> on the Manongs came out last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed two pieces of legislation, one recognizing \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/07/06/california-to-recognize-filipino-american-larry-itliong-on-oct-25\">Larry Itliong Day\u003c/a>, the other \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB123\">requiring public schools\u003c/a> to teach this history. Rob Bonta, the state’s only Filipino-American Assembly member, introduced those bills. Although his parents were farm labor organizers and he grew up in UFW headquarters, he says, “When I cracked the history books in high school and college, I didn’t see those stories being told.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delano, Gadiano ends a tour of the town at one last, ordinary place: Larry Itliong’s simple gravesite. The headstone says only, “Beloved husband and father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave our people some dignity,\" Gadiano says. \"He gave his guts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was reported for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways,\u003c/a> in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music by Susie Ibarra and Los Lobos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, grapes in the grocery store don’t seem that controversial. But 50 years ago, a historic strike in California’s Central Valley vineyards set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. Some people in the town of Delano and across the state are determined to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be easy to drive through Delano and have no idea that history was made here. It’s a dry, hot Central Valley town, and places of historical importance -- such as a retirement home, a church, and acres and acres of farmland -- look ordinary on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many people, though, these places are sacred ground: the vineyards, picketed for years by farmworkers and their supporters; the high school auditorium where Sen. Bobby Kennedy spoke; a white stucco building on the edge of town where Cesar Chavez carried out a hunger strike and became a national symbol of farmworker rights; and a utilitarian community center known as Filipino Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To resident Roger Gadiano, Filipino Hall is a shrine. “This is our Mecca,” he says. “I guess it’s our Selma. This is it!” Because in this building, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t know who in the heck walked in here … but I do.” Gadiano says. “It tickles me. We’re a part of a big history. We took a step that was bold and that no one else would take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those voting -- and striking -- were elders called Manongs, the mostly migrant, bachelor Filipino farmworkers whose names and stories few people know, even in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1440x975.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Philippine Weekend, a cultural celebration and kind of family reunion, a group of young women say they never learned about the farmworker movement in school. Anhelica Perez says her Latina grandmother and other relatives actually participated in the strike and ensuing boycott, “So it was active family history, but it was not taught -- or talked about -- at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she’s in her late 20s, Melanie Retuda says she learned about the Filipino origins of the strike only last year. “I’d known of Cesar Chavez and Hispanics being involved,” she says. “Being Filipino, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ Filipinos actually made an impact in the process. It makes me proud that they were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez is outraged that this history is not known because the actions those Filipinos took improved her family’s lives. “I mean, I’m extremely proud that Cesar Chavez was the right face at the right time, but a lot of the dirty work was already done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-800x1010.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-400x505.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Filipino farmworkers and labor organizers had prepared for the Delano Grape Strike for decades. Dawn Mabalon, professor of history at San Francisco State University, says they’d been fighting for better working conditions since the 1920s, and had a key win in 1939 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five to seven thousand Filipinos in asparagus fields all walk out at the height of the season, on Good Friday,” threatening the availability of asparagus on Easter dinner tables, Mabalon says. “Growers capitulated in a day. So Filipinos know that if they all walk out, in absolute unity, with absolute militancy, they’re probably going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the ’60s, though, conditions for farmworkers across the state were still dismal. Mabalon describes conducting oral histories in which she heard stories of field crews sharing just one tin cup of water. “You still had no bathrooms in the fields, poor wages, no workers' comp, no unemployment, no Social Security,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the summer of 1965, when growers cut the pay of Filipinos picking grapes in the Coachella Valley, they were prepared to act. These workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, were “led by this really charismatic, seasoned, militant labor leader, Larry Itliong,” Mabalon says, “and they make a stand against the farmers in Coachella and they win: $1.40 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they migrated north to Delano, organizers like Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco urged local families to join them in asking for improved conditions (the same raise to $1.40 an hour). Growers balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired journalist Alex Edillor was only 11 years old, but he remembers his farmworker parents coming back from heated meetings, and talking about a potential strike over the kitchen table. “There were people with mortgages, with families to feed, considering a strike action,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667730\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Sept. 7, workers gathered at Filipino Hall and voted to strike. The next morning they went out to the vineyards, as they always did, but made a dramatic stand. Edillor remembers: \u003ci>“\u003c/i>It was the first day of school, I was all prepared to come home, watch a little TV,” but when he came home, his parents were there. Like the Manongs, and other locals, they’d worked a full day, then left the harvested crop on the ground and walked off the vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano, who had family members join the strike, adds, “Just imagine over 1,500 old Filipino men at different labor camps, different vineyards, all walking out at same time. How awesome is that!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Gadiano’s first day of his senior year of high school. He remembers walking into his Spanish II class, and being approached by a grower’s son. “‘Hey Rog, your Uncle Max just went on strike.’ I went, ‘He did? They just want a raise.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers got kicked out of labor camps. Gadiano says, “The farmers were going to use the Mexicans to break the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Chavez and others, like Dolores Huerta and Gil Padilla, had been organizing Mexican workers around Delano for a few years through the National Farm Workers Association, but a strike wasn’t in their immediate plans. So Larry Itliong appealed to Chavez, and two weeks later, the much more sizable group of Mexican workers joined the strike. Soon, the two unions came together to form what would become United Farm Workers, with Larry Itliong assistant director under Chavez. It was a historic interracial union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These two groups that had been kept apart for so long, coming together, that is the power in the Delano Grape Strike,” says historian Mabalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexicans and Filipinos gathered at Filipino Hall, eating fishhead soup and preparing strikers’ meals, organizing, even sleeping there. 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As the only supplier of Filipino goods in the region, it was popular with townspeople and labor camps, where the family delivered fish, meat and other goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A common order was a 100-pound sack of Calrose rice, sticky rice,” Gadiano remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. 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